FIGHT AGAINST DISEASE
STEADY PROGRESS IN BRITAIN ATTENTION TO NUTRITION LOCAL AUTHORITIES CO-OPER-ATING [British Oliicial Wireless] (Received 19th June. 2.0 p.m.) RUGBY, 18th June. Replying to a House of Commons dehate on departmental estimates, the Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, declared: “One thing is certain and that is we are steadily gaining ground in the long and continuous fight against disease and ill health.”
After recalling the favourable statistics relating to the re-housing of people since the Great War, the Minister said he recognised that more had to be done particularly for rural housing, regard-' ing which he hoped to take further stops at an early date. The recommendations of the valuable interim report presented a few months ago by an expert advisory committee on nutrition were being carried out. Local authorities were extending the provision of milk to expectant mothers and to school children, and increased exchequer grants were enabling them to do more than.in the past, while the improvement in trade and rising wages were helping to solve the problem of malnutrition among the poorest.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 June 1937, Page 8
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